Letter: Free speech

Published: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 12:49 PM.

Here is another liberty that is being eroded by the progressives: freedom of speech. I could not say it any more eloquently than Ms. Diana Erbio, and I quote:

“What has happened to common courtesy? One of
America
’s basic strengths was that people with different opinions could voice them. Today it seems only certain speech is acceptable.

Comments made by the
University
of
South Carolina Professor Darry Sragow
were aired to the public viawww.campusreform.org. “Republicans are racist and stupid” and “the Republican Party is the last refuge of old angry white people,” were among the comments made by the political science professor prior to the presidential election of 2012 to his class.

Professor Sragow has every right to make those comments, but does anyone believe that if a college professor had made those types of comments about a race other than white it would have gone unnoticed by the main stream media? The problem is not what people are saying, but that under the guise of being politically correct, some speech is accepted while other speech is not.

That is the danger that Dr. Ben Carson addressed at the prayer breakfast in
Washington
D.C.
several weeks ago. Dr. Carson warned, “We’ve reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended.”

If people are afraid to voice their concerns, or their ideology because they will be shouted down as conservatives routinely are when they speak on college campuses across the country our nation will suffer. America has achieved it’s greatness because we have been a true open society that allows many voices the chance to be heard, not the phony open society of the progressives which only wants to hear the echo of their own voices.”

Here is another liberty that is being eroded by the progressives: freedom of speech. I could not say it any more eloquently than Ms. Diana Erbio, and I quote:

“What has happened to common courtesy? One of America’s basic strengths was that people with different opinions could voice them. Today it seems only certain speech is acceptable.

Comments made by the University of South Carolina Professor Darry Sragow were aired to the public viawww.campusreform.org. “Republicans are racist and stupid” and “the Republican Party is the last refuge of old angry white people,” were among the comments made by the political science professor prior to the presidential election of 2012 to his class.

Professor Sragow has every right to make those comments, but does anyone believe that if a college professor had made those types of comments about a race other than white it would have gone unnoticed by the main stream media? The problem is not what people are saying, but that under the guise of being politically correct, some speech is accepted while other speech is not.

That is the danger that Dr. Ben Carson addressed at the prayer breakfast in WashingtonD.C. several weeks ago. Dr. Carson warned, “We’ve reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended.”

If people are afraid to voice their concerns, or their ideology because they will be shouted down as conservatives routinely are when they speak on college campuses across the country our nation will suffer. America has achieved it’s greatness because we have been a true open society that allows many voices the chance to be heard, not the phony open society of the progressives which only wants to hear the echo of their own voices.”